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Chapters:

0:00​​​​​​​ - 1:17​ Introduction
1:17​​ - 3:58​​ I. Subverting Conventions
3:58​​​​ - 6:05​​ II. Cinematic Poetry
6:05​​​​ - 9:20​​ III. Claire Denis and the Gaze
9:20 - 10:06 Outro



Further Readings:


Beau travail: A Cinema of Sensation by Girish Shambu
The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border by Marjorie Vecchio
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet


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Dee Yan-Kay

This essay was made by William Leese